Route briefs, aircraft-aware planning, FAA weather, IFR/VFR charts, 3D terrain, and voice debriefs that turn shutdown notes into logbook entries. The same engine also powers a free live flight tracker, open to anyone.
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Most apps draw airspace as flat blue lines on a 2D map. Fly Overhead renders the real shelf - the Class B wedding cake, the restricted-area walls, the terrain underneath - so you can see the box you have to stay inside of, not just trace it.
Real elevation mesh under your route. See the ridge you’re crossing, not a contour line on paper.
Restricted areas and MOAs as floor-to-ceiling walls, with live active status and the altitude band.
Every ADS-B contact over the last hour as a continental density map - the I-95 corridor, the LA basin, the Atlanta hub, all glowing.
Chop inferred from ADS-B vertical-rate variance across nearby traffic - light / moderate / severe by altitude band, on a flight-level slider. A supplement to PIREPs, not a replacement.
Live pilot reports across the country - turbulence and icing, filterable into heatmaps by altitude. The reports that come straight from cockpits.
Tell RightSeat where you’re going and it works from the same inputs you already check: FAA terrain, winds aloft, NOTAMs, TFRs, your aircraft profile, and your saved minimums. It drafts the brief so you can verify faster and make the final call.
A full PIC brief with POH numbers, departure / enroute / arrival weather, density altitude, hazards, NOTAMs, and a plain-language risk summary against your minimums.
Runs burn-vs-altitude against vector-averaged winds aloft and picks the cruise that saves the most fuel. KABQ→KLRU: 8,500 ft, 13.6 gal, scored against 10,500 and 12,500.
Searches around active special-use airspace and terrain - rerouted the KABQ→KLRU corridor around the White Sands R-5107 complex in 692 ms, +17 NM, four waypoints.
Compares the next several hours of winds, weather, and inferred turbulence so you can choose a better launch window before you brief.
Record a memo at shutdown; it writes the structured logbook entry - crosswind, approach quality, learning notes - ready to import to ForeFlight or MyFlightbook.
Every brief saves to your plans and caches for offline - pull it up on the ramp with no signal, synced the moment you're back on wifi.
Stop hand-entering Hobbs times. Fly Overhead watches the ADS-B feed for your tail numbers and drafts the logbook entry automatically - then lets you replay the whole flight in 3D, phase by phase.
ADS-B autoimport drafts every flight against your tail numbers. CSV import from ForeFlight & MyFlightbook. FAR 61.51 record-of-record, FAR 61.57 currency tracked automatically across all your aircraft.
Replay any flight in 3D - taxi, takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, approach, landing color-coded along the track. Altitude curtain, performance overlay, and a maneuver timeline with the numbers that matter.
Fly Overhead is a Progressive Web App. The same install runs on iPad, iPhone, Android, and laptop - and caches your charts locally for the last-mile coverage where the cell tower isn’t. No app store gate. No vendor lock. No per-device license.
iPadyoke, kneeboard, panel mountPWA installs from any browser
iPhoneright seat, pocket, backupTouch-rendered for kneeboard use
Androidphone or tabletSame install, same charts cache
LaptopFBO desk, dispatch room, planningFull-resolution chart layersFly Overhead listens to live ATC and turns it into text in real time, then ties each call to the traffic on your map. The frequency stops being a blur and becomes something you can actually follow.
The live map stays open to everyone, forever - see overhead traffic without an account. The EFB is the working tool you log in to: charts, planning, RightSeat briefs, the logbook, and the real-time data.
Position, altitude, ground speed, vertical rate, heading, and squawk for every ADS-B-equipped aircraft within view, backed by radar-derived supplemental traffic where ADS-B can’t reach. Built for resilience, so the map keeps moving even when any one source has a bad night.
VFR sectional, IFR low and high, terminal area charts, and approach plates layered on the same map as the live traffic. METAR, TAF, and SIGMET rendered at scale. 28-day FAA cycle, same effective dates as the books in the right seat.
231453Z 25008KT 10SM FEW090 19/M02 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP170Find any aircraft by ICAO24 hex or callsign - instant recenter with route arrival snap-to. Pull 30 days of history by tail, replay any flight, or hand the same normalized feed into your own dispatch tool over WebSocket or REST. All the information from the FAA at your fingertips.
“I open three tabs every morning: my POH, usairnet, and Fly Overhead. The third one is the only one I haven’t tried to replace.”
A. EwertPPL · KAEG → KFHR · Cessna 172
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The live map is free, forever. The EFB starts at $7.99 / month. The data API is usage-based or month-to-month. No vendor lock, no data-export tax.